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She lit a cigarette, with the full almostness of the moment congealing around her.
Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010
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She lit a cigarette, with the full almostness of the moment congealing around her.
Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010
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She lit a cigarette, with the full almostness of the moment congealing around her.
Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010
Logophile77 commented on the word almostness
A John Green word.
If a moment has almostness, it means something almost happened in that moment, but did not. The state or quality of almost happening.
January 22, 2018